Addressing Vitamin D Deficiency through Traditional Medicines: Recommendations for the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy (Ayush)

Arpita Mukherjee (), Aashish Chaudhry, Damayantee Majumdar (), Trishali Khanna (), Latika Khatwani () and Pallavi Verma ()
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Abstract: This policy brief underscores the pivotal role of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy (Ayush), in addressing Vitamin D deficiency through policy initiatives. These include building awareness and promoting heliotherapy, launching dietotherapy campaigns [including working with Indian Council of Medical Research – National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) and Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on food fortifications and right diet], promoting the use of traditional medicines to improve the body's natural healing abilities, collaborating with the FSSAI to relaunch "Project Dhoop" to encourage safe sun exposure across all population groups, training and capacity building of Ayush health workers to identify and address the deficiency, developing multi-stakeholder partnerships for twinning of traditional medicines with modern healthcare and encouraging research and development to produce formulations/reformulations of traditional medicines to address the deficiency.

Keywords: Vitamin D; public health; India; healthcare policy; rickets; bone; micronutrient; icrier (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 page
Date: 2025-08
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